Design Screen ship picture

[incbob]

On the design screen there is a picture of a ship that you scroll through and make the ship be the picture you want. How does the game decide what pictures to show there?

I would like to have two or three frigate pictures and then just pick the one I want. Is this possible?

[Aeson]

The list of images that shows up includes all possible ship images included within the game. As far as I know, you cannot restrict the images that are displayed in any way, other than by reducing the number of ship images available. So to the best of my knowledge, your wish for a set of three frigate images is not possible.

[ehsumrell1]

ORIGINAL: incbob

On the design screen there is a picture of a ship that you scroll through and make the ship be the picture you want. How does the game decide what pictures to show there?

I would like to have two or three frigate pictures and then just pick the one I want. Is this possible?

Hello incbob, Aeson is not quite correct.

There is a way to get what you desire. The ship pictures on the Design Screen are the cumulative pictures from the shipsets either in the vanilla game or in the mod your playing. So if you have 22 shipset families with 26 ship and base images each family, then you will have 572 ship and base images to select from. Each group of 26 ship/base images are sorted by family (race set).

To have the 3, or more additional frigate pictures you'd like (or other class ship/base), add a new shipfamily (numbered incrementally) to the "images\units\ships" folder in either the Vanilla root or the Customization folder (depending on what you're playing). I.e if your last ship family is 'family22' add
a 'family23' folder. Then add 26 ship, base, or combination thereof images to that folder keeping the SAME NAMING CONVENTION! In other words: bomber, fighter, frigate, destroyer...and so on.
Just use the ship images your wish. In other words, even though the file name is 'genericbase' it is an image of a frigate. Do this, and you can have up to 26 more different images to choose from. All you have to do is scroll all the way down in the image listing. The new shipset will be the last 26 images at the bottom.
Hope this is explained well enough for you!
[:)]

[incbob]

That is fine, I am not saying I want exactly three. Let me give you an example then...

I have a special ship set, call it familyZ. In familyz I have the frigate plus three other images names X, Y, and Z. So X, Y, and Z will show up as pictures I can use? I ask, because they don't appear to be showing up for me.

[ehsumrell1]

ORIGINAL: incbob

That is fine, I am not saying I want exactly three. Let me give you an example then...

I have a special ship set, call it familyZ. In familyz I have the frigate plus three other images names X, Y, and Z. So X, Y, and Z will show up as pictures I can use? I ask, because they don't appear to be showing up for me.

You MUST have 26 images in the extra family set incbob for it to work properly. As an example, below is a copy of what my extra shipset contains and how it is structured.

Remember, all you have to do is scroll all the way down in the image listing. The new shipset will be the last 26 images at the bottom.

[zoommooz11]

ORIGINAL: ehsumrell1

ORIGINAL: incbob

That is fine, I am not saying I want exactly three. Let me give you an example then...

I have a special ship set, call it familyZ. In familyz I have the frigate plus three other images names X, Y, and Z. So X, Y, and Z will show up as pictures I can use? I ask, because they don't appear to be showing up for me.

You MUST have 26 images in the extra family set incbob for it to work properly. As an example, below is a copy of what my extra shipset contains and how it is structured.

Remember, all you have to do is scroll all the way down in the image listing. The new shipset will be the last 26 images at the bottom.

I searched everywhere for the voyager (cruiser) and sabre (escort) class ships. where did you get them ehsumrell ?. Also, possibly a Miranda?? I have got my own 26 family ship, but those three would make a nice addition.

[fruitgnome]

From which mod is the colonyship, I like it very much. Or can you upload it?

[Aeson]

I would guess that it's from ehsumrell's Picard Era Star Trek mod, found here:
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